Pretreatment scalene node biopsy in gynecologic malignancy: Prudent or passe?

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 238-241

  Horowitz, Neil S ^a   Tamimi, Hisham K ^a   Goff, Barbara A ^a   Koh, Wui Jin ^b   Schmidt, Rodney A ^b   Greer, Benjamin E ^a   Paley, Pamela J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Department of Radiation Oncology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISTULA; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RADIATION FIELD; URETER OBSTRUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERUS CARCINOMA;

EID: 0032742635     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1999.5571     Document Type: Article

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